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When reading Chandi Di Vaar you should be standing and holding a shastar in your hand. Big or small it does not matter. You could also do it sitting but then you must place your shastar in front of you. It should be read at amritvela and before the sun sets. I like to read path with a jot as a big light is usually to bright. You should use a toof for good smell. You can sit on a blanket which is laid out on floor or a bed. You should have some water near you while reading the path. At the end you should drink it and sprinkle it around. I also recommend doing kirtan of this path witj the sal sangat or listening to it. I recommend reading ugardanti after rea…
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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Guru Roop Sangat Jeo, With Guruji's kirpa, daas has made a humble attempt to translate the foreword to Sri Sarbloh Granth Sahib Ji Steek. I apologise for countless mistakes I must have made while translating, also I hope you will not have too many problems understanding my pinglish :happy:. This text will hopefully be useful to Gurmukhs who have difficulties reading/understanding Gurmukhi but are keen to learn more about Sri Sarbloh Granth. If you are interested, you can also download this as pdf here Bhull Chukk Maaf, Gurfateh Jeo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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This is an early piece by the author: ਕਲਦਾਰ ਰੂਪ ਢਿੱਲੋਂ ਸਥਾਨ ਨਵੇਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਰਣਜੀਤਪੁਰ ਸੀ। ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਵਿਚ ਹਰ ਦੋ ਬੰਦਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਕਲਦਾਰ ਸੀ। ਪੁਲਸ ਵਿਚ ਹਰੇਕ ਸਿਪਾਹੀ ਲਈ ਤਿੰਨ ਕਲਦਾਰੀ ਸਿਪਾਹੀ ਸਨ। ਪਹਿਲੀ ਆਵਾਜ਼ ਕਈ ਲੋਕ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਕਲਦਾਰ ਸੱਦਦੇ ਨੇ। ਕਈ ਕਲਦਾਸ ਆਖਦੇ ਹਨ। ਮੈਂ ਮਸ਼ੀਨ ਹਾਂ ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਸਭ ਨੌਕਰ ਸਮਝਦੇ। ਆਮ ਮਸ਼ੀਨ ਨਹੀਂ ਹਾਂ। ਆਦਮੀ ਵਾਂਗ ਮੈਂ ਚੱਲਦਾ ਫਿਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। ਜਦ ਇਨਸਾਨ ਨੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਬਣਾਇਆ ਮਕਸਦ ਇੱਕ ਹੀ ਸੀ। ਇਨਸਾਨ ਮਜ਼ਦੂਰੀ ਦਾ ਕੰਮ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਸਨ। ਲੋਕ ਮੌਜ-ਮਸਤੀਆਂ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਸਨ। ਮਾਲਿਕਾਂ ਨੇ ਪੈਸੇ ਬਚਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਬੰਦਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਥਾਂ ਕਲਦਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਰੱਖ ਲਿਆ। ਮਸ਼ੀਨਾਂ ਹੁਣ ਓਹ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਦੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਇੱਕ ਸਮੇਂ ਬੰਦੇ ਕਰਦੇ ਸਨ। ਪਹਿਲੀਆਂ ਮਸ਼ੀਨਾਂ ਔਖੇ ਕੰਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸੌਖਾ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਲਈ ਵਰਤੀਆਂ ਗਈਆਂ। ਹੌਲੀ ਹੌਲੀ ਕਾਰਖ਼…
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In 1846 C.E., when they had defeated the Sikh nation of Punjab, the officers of the British East India company found themselves in charge of a vast tract of land inhabited by a proud people with a history of surviving political and religious oppression. The Khalsa Sikhs, the order of "saint-soldiers" founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 had weathered Mughal oppression and rebounded from two ghallugharas, or "holocausts" (1746 and 1762). When the Sikh confederacy was joined together by Maharaja Ranjeet Singh in 1801, it governed a domain the size of France. The Punjab was the last part of the Indian subcontinent to fall to the British, and two short years later, the Khalsa…
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"If you cover your arm in oil and stick it in a sack of sesame seed, and if a musllaman takes as many oaths as the number of sesame seeds stuck to your arm..................... still never trust him!" I have heard this by 2 sikhs till now.... Guru Gobind Singh ji were helped by muslims also , though many tyrants were muslims at that time . Peer Buddh shah , Nabi Khan & Gani Khan , I think the list is endless ...! This apparent "hate" thing can be applied similarly to hindus since they broke their oaths on cow and counting hindus as enemies of khalsa - the list is also long !
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Vaheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru Ji ki fateh. Can you Please explain what the 3 qualities are? See extract from today's hukumnama. "Trapped by the three qualities, people come and go"
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This thread can be used to share gurpurabs, important dates, etc. from our ithihaas
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there is a bani called pooranmashi katha by guru gobind singh ji. Where can i find this bani? thanks.
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A King named Suraj (Sun) had eight sons. The youngest of the eight named ‘Shani’ (Saturn) was from his second queen. He was black, ugly and lazy. The marriages of the princesses were solemnised through the rite of ‘Swaiamber’. Seven elder sons of Raja Sun got married but no one approved Shani for marriage. In order to show him fair coloured, his mother applied Vermillion on his body. Even then no girl accepted him in marriage. When King Suraj died his wife burnt herself alive on the same pyre. Lazy Shani would not even earn his living. Whatever grams was made available to him by his brothers, he would live on it. His sisters-in-law had named him eater of seven ty…
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Originally posted in 2010 on sikhawareness.com: The maharajah’s European doctor John Martin Honigberger, a native of Kronstadt in Transylvania (no Dracula jokes please!), was a medical man. He spent 15 years at Lahore, as a physician and a Director of a gunpowder mill in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. He was at Lahore at the British ‘annexation’, after which he was made to relinquish his former position on receipt of a pension. His published work, Thirty-Five Years In The East, was released in two volumes with part 1 being an autobiographical narrative and volume 2 concentrating on medical matters. That being said, in v…
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By californiasardar1 · Posted
You make a great point. Nobody is going to mess with an economic giant consisting of over 1 billion people because some random, uneducated pendus who have no money, no organization and no power. Sikhs are very clueless. Just browsing SikhSangat is extremely depressing. I think there was a thread a long time ago where people were speculating on the worldwide Sikh population, and everyone was just pulling random crazy numbers out of their @sses (like over 100 million). -
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Sikhs will not be able to move forward and progress until we stop: 1. Attaching importance to silly things and 2. Living in the past (and even worse: living in a pretend fairy tale version of the past) The Koh-i-noor diamond is not some sort of special symbol of Sikh sovereignty. It has just been a status symbol for various rulers over time. The Sikh obsession with it is corny and pathetic on multiple levels. It's like caring about random material possessions of some rich person just because that rich person comes from the same background as you. Also, Sikhs crying about the British taking it is silly considering that Ranjit Singh took it from someone. What is the appropriate amount of time to go back to determine the "rightful" owner of anything? -
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Why does it matter that you aren't the only one who engages in sentimental revisionism about Ranjit Singh's kingdom? Does the fact that, in addition to you, a large proportion (probably a majority) of our people are misguided and misinformed somehow make it less cringe-worthy? Regarding why Sikhs remember Maharaja Ranjit Singh and not the other various Sikh rajas, there are two reasons: 1. Ranjit Singh had a much larger kingdom but, moreover: 2. 95% of today's Sikhs (including Malwai) probably are unaware of the existence of the other rajas in any case We are sadly one of the most clueless and ill-informed groups of people on the planet. I bet you more than 95% of Sikhs who have heard of Ranjit Singh also believe that his empire included all of modern Indian Punjab.
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